texinfo update

texinfo update

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Could we please have texinfo updated from version 4.3 to version 4.6?

(While looking on gcc.gnu.org, I also found traces of texinfo-4.0b and
texinfo-4.0 in /scratch/root/usr/local which probably we can get rid of
now.)

Thanks,
Gerald
-- 
Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)   gerald@pfeifer.com   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

Re: texinfo update

[Jason Molenda]

Chris is off-line this week -- Jeff Law, Angela and myself are
covering anything that comes up.

AFAIK Chris has used rpm's to update texinfo of late.  I don't know
where you'd get an updated texinfo rpm, so unless Jeff or Angela 
know, it'd be best to ping the list again in a week or so.

Jason

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:33:22PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Could we please have texinfo updated from version 4.3 to version 4.6?
> 
> (While looking on gcc.gnu.org, I also found traces of texinfo-4.0b and
> texinfo-4.0 in /scratch/root/usr/local which probably we can get rid of
> now.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Gerald
> -- 
> Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)   gerald@pfeifer.com   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

Re: texinfo update

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jason Molenda wrote:
> AFAIK Chris has used rpm's to update texinfo of late.  I don't know
> where you'd get an updated texinfo rpm, so unless Jeff or Angela
> know, it'd be best to ping the list again in a week or so.

As suggested by Jason: Ping.

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:33:22PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> Could we please have texinfo updated from version 4.3 to version 4.6?
>>
>> (While looking on gcc.gnu.org, I also found traces of texinfo-4.0b and
>> texinfo-4.0 in /scratch/root/usr/local which probably we can get rid of
>> now.)

Gerald

Re: texinfo update

[Angela Marie Thomas]

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jason Molenda wrote:
> > AFAIK Chris has used rpm's to update texinfo of late.  I don't know
> > where you'd get an updated texinfo rpm, so unless Jeff or Angela
> > know, it'd be best to ping the list again in a week or so.
> 
> As suggested by Jason: Ping.

Whoops.  Sorry.  I somehow missed this thread.

Looks like Chris (or whomever) had to build a new RPM to install a more
up-to-date texinfo version.  That looks pretty easy to do so I can do
that.  However, will updating the version break anything for any of the
folks doing releases?  I Cc'd a couple folks who might be affected.  In
the mean time I'll start generating a new RPM.

--Angela

Re: texinfo update

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:48:00AM -0700, Angela Marie Thomas wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jason Molenda wrote:
> > > AFAIK Chris has used rpm's to update texinfo of late.  I don't know
> > > where you'd get an updated texinfo rpm, so unless Jeff or Angela
> > > know, it'd be best to ping the list again in a week or so.
> > 
> > As suggested by Jason: Ping.
> 
> Whoops.  Sorry.  I somehow missed this thread.
> 
> Looks like Chris (or whomever) had to build a new RPM to install a more
> up-to-date texinfo version.  That looks pretty easy to do so I can do
> that.  However, will updating the version break anything for any of the
> folks doing releases?  I Cc'd a couple folks who might be affected.  In
> the mean time I'll start generating a new RPM.

Binutils releases won't be affected - snapshots might, but we'll fix it
if it breaks, I guess.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: texinfo update

[Angela Marie Thomas]

> Looks like Chris (or whomever) had to build a new RPM to install a more
> up-to-date texinfo version.  That looks pretty easy to do so I can do
> that.  However, will updating the version break anything for any of the
> folks doing releases?  I Cc'd a couple folks who might be affected.  In
> the mean time I'll start generating a new RPM.

Looks like someone already started on this (waves at Chris) so I'll
let him finish.

--Angela

Re: texinfo update

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:59:33AM -0700, Angela Marie Thomas wrote:
>>Looks like Chris (or whomever) had to build a new RPM to install a more
>>up-to-date texinfo version.  That looks pretty easy to do so I can do
>>that.  However, will updating the version break anything for any of the
>>folks doing releases?  I Cc'd a couple folks who might be affected.  In
>>the mean time I'll start generating a new RPM.
>
>Looks like someone already started on this (waves at Chris) so I'll let
>him finish.

Yes, I'm investigating this.  I've been rather preoccupied this week
dealing with the worm attacks.  I think I've probably spent more time
on this than my "real job".

In any event, I usually wait until something is available as a RawHide
release before I install it so that I end up using "standard" Red Hat
packages.

(No bonus points for any responses which make obvious points about
RawHide)

I tried grabbing a package from another web site but that trick never
works.  So I guess I'll have to adapt the spec file from the rawhide
texinfo 4.5 release to 4.6.

Do we really need 4.6 or would 4.5 do?  That's available via rawhide
now.

Oh, and:

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:33:22PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>(While looking on gcc.gnu.org, I also found traces of texinfo-4.0b and
>texinfo-4.0 in /scratch/root/usr/local which probably we can get rid of
>now.)

Poking around in the /scratch directory isn't going to be to useful.
That contains remnants of the old sourceware system.

cgf

Re: texinfo update

[Angela Marie Thomas]

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:33:22PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> >(While looking on gcc.gnu.org, I also found traces of texinfo-4.0b and
> >texinfo-4.0 in /scratch/root/usr/local which probably we can get rid of
> >now.)
> 
> Poking around in the /scratch directory isn't going to be to useful.
> That contains remnants of the old sourceware system.

/usr/local/src/makeinfo has texinfo-4.0.  I'm sure that can
be safely nuked.

--Angela

Re: texinfo update

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:12:54PM -0700, Angela Marie Thomas wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 06:33:22PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> >(While looking on gcc.gnu.org, I also found traces of texinfo-4.0b and
>> >texinfo-4.0 in /scratch/root/usr/local which probably we can get rid of
>> >now.)
>> 
>> Poking around in the /scratch directory isn't going to be to useful.
>> That contains remnants of the old sourceware system.
>
>/usr/local/src/makeinfo has texinfo-4.0.  I'm sure that can
>be safely nuked.

I wasn't sure if anything relied on it but I guess it must be safe to
remove by now.

cgf

Re: texinfo update

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:00:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>So I guess I'll have to adapt the spec file from the rawhide texinfo
>4.5 release to 4.6.

This is what I've done.  There is a new version of texinfo 4.6
installed.

cgf

Re: texinfo update

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> This is what I've done.  There is a new version of texinfo 4.6
> installed.

Cool, thanks!

Gerald